--- title: Europe's red-tape bonfire has pleased almost no one description: Twenty months into the EU's deregulation campaign, neither industry nor digital-rights groups are satisfied with the results. Businesses say the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/europe-s-red-tape-bonfire-has-pleased-almost-no-one-xawtkk1ww twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Europe's red-tape bonfire has pleased almost no one | daily.dev og:description: Twenty months into the EU's deregulation campaign, neither industry nor digital-rights groups are satisfied with the results. Businesses say the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/europe-s-red-tape-bonfire-has-pleased-almost-no-one-xawtkk1ww og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/xAWtkk1Ww.png og:image:alt: Europe's red-tape bonfire has pleased almost no one og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Europe's red-tape bonfire has pleased almost no one **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Twenty months into the EU's deregulation campaign, neither industry nor digital-rights groups are satisfied with the results. Businesses say the 'simplification' drive is too slow and complicated, while privacy advocates warn the Digital Omnibus weakens hard-won protections like GDPR and the AI Act. The AI Omnibus, approved in June, delays high-risk AI obligations, creates new grounds for training AI on personal data, and drops an AI-literacy requirement — changes industry lobbied for but critics call a rollback. Some firms now want a multi-year regulatory freeze rather than continued churn, and others argue energy costs were the real problem all along. The underlying tension between competitiveness and rights protection remains unresolved. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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